Today's Scripture
Living Water John 4:7-15
7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”
RJ's Devotion
What does the passage say?
V. 7-8 Jesus asks the Samaritan women to serve him a drink.
V. 9-11 It is as if both Jesus and the women are saying, ‘if you knew who I really was, you wouldn’t have talked with me that way.’
V. 13-15 Jesus proclaims that he is the living water, and the women, out of nowhere asks for Jesus to offer that water. The one who has been asked is now asking.
What does this passage mean to me/us?
“I’m still thirsty.”
In 2002, Korea and Japan co-hosted the World Cup, the biggest sports event in the World.
“I’m still thirsty” is was Guus Hiddink, Manager of the Korean National Football team, said after one of the historic victories for the Korean Football team. Hiddink led the Korean Football team to finish 4th place, which was the best record Korea ever had.
His words motivated the players to reach the unreachable.
While I read this well know the passage, his words were recalled.
Am I thirsty for the living water like the women at the well? Jesus says, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life” (V. 13-14 NRSV).
When the women heard these word, she responded immediately. It was because she had the thirst for the living water.
Even though I might have tasted the water of Jesus, which I shouldn’t be thirsty again, I still ask myself, ‘Am I thirsty for more of Jesus?’
The desire to have more of him should be my everlasting prayer.
Lord, quench my desire to have you more.
Prayer
Lord, your love is sufficient for us. However, we need more of you every day, so we can share that love with others. Quench our thirst for more of you today. In Christ name, we pray, AMEN.
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